A discussion of the possible causes, effects and remedies of the drug problem in this country. (JC)

Describes the flexible and relatively unstructured program of activities of the Family Activity Center for women alcoholics in Atlanta, Georgia. (RJ)

Educating the alcoholic, as practiced at Patton State Hospital, California, is a therapy program attempting to train and educate the alcoholic in skills that would enable him to remain abstinent or to achieve successful controlled drinking. The inability to alleviate social and psychological stress is seen as the greatest learning deficit. (BL)

Summarizes the diagnostic evaluation of one prepubescent male with the double Y syndrome and suggests a need to investigate further the biochemical, physiological, and genetic roles underlying such gross behavioral abnormalities. (WY)

The author sees the present as a dark period in the eclipse of the culture. There is cultural confusion which severely affects the enforcements of laws which do not keep pace of cultural changes. Customs, styles of life, and concepts of right and wrong, however, will eventually achieve an equilibrium. (Author)

Investigates the role of sociopathic tendencies in reactions to inequitable exchanges in 273 males and females classified as high or low in sociopathy. Subjects read narratives of inequitable exchanges and assumed the role of the exploiter and the role of the victim in each. (Author/RH)

Argues that the choice to violate normative standards is a choice we all have and that, for some, this choice represents an enjoyable and exciting alternative. Rarely have sociologists adopted the common sense perspective that deviance is an activity in which the participants engage simply for the pleasure it provides. (Author/RH)

Describes activity in which student in abnormal psychology and psychology of exceptional children classes personally experience being judged abnormal. The experience allows the students to remember relevant research, become sensitized to the feelings of individuals classified as deviant, and use caution in classifying individuals as abnormal.…

A major concern to anyone involved in the alcoholism field is the basic understanding of alcoholism as a disease that Hispanics have not yet completely accepted. Hispanics have usually labeled the use of alcoholic beverages as being embedded into Hispanic culture and have viewed alcoholism as an individual weakness to be endured in silence. (NQ)

Presents Standards of Care, recommended as minimal criteria for professionals in the field, which were unanimously endorsed at the Third International Congress on the Treatment of Sex Offenders (Further revisions to these standards are anticipated). Discusses professional competence, antecedents to sex offender treatment, and principles of the…

This study of 60 male adolescents showed that assaultive offenders' family relations evidenced rigidity and low cohesion and peer relations evidenced aggression. Sex offenders and their mothers reported neurotic symptoms. Peer relations of sex offenders showed low levels of emotional bonding. (RJC)

Examined relationship of rejection of social norms and nonconforming behavior to early initiation of sexual intercourse among urban adolescents. Data revealed association between antecedent psychosocial unconventionality and increased risk of earlier transition to nonvirginity. This held even when gender, socioeconomic status, school grade, and…